[X4U] Re: X4U Incremental Backup Suggestions

[Jim Elmore]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Oliver Marshall wrote:

> Isn't the version that comes with drives Retrospect Express, which  
> is a
> cut down and free version, which doesn't have incremental/differential
> features.
>
> If I recall correctly that is.


Without checking with Dantz, I've used the Express version before and  
I think the restriction was network backups to file sets larger than  
2GB. Maybe that was an operating system limitiation? But it sure  
seems like I was doing incremental backups back then. Maybe the  
restriction was for just one computer instead of several on a network.


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Elmore [mailto:jelmore at elmoredesign.com]
> Sent: 19 October 2005 02:36
> To: A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user.
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Re: X4U Incremental Backup Suggestions
>
> Hate to barge in on this thread, but the thought of doing incremental
> backups on DVDs sounds awful. In the early days, I tried backing up
> to CDs and it was awful, trying to keep track of about 20 disks and
> have to mind the machine during the process because the discks don't
> change themselves. Maybe DVDs wold be different, but they sure would
> be slow.
>
> The only software I've found that really works well for incremental
> backups is Retrospect by Dantz. And you can get if free with some
> external hard drives. Maybe you don't have the funds, but for $200
> you can get an external 250 GB Firewire hard drive that comes with a
> version of Retrospect. See <http://www.pcmag.com/
> article2/0,1759,1749336,00.asp> as an example.
>
> If you're really interested in backups, I promise you'll find this
> money well spent.
>
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2005, at 7:19 PM, David Checkman wrote:
>
>
>> Randy Singer wrote ...
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> But I think that I have a solution that will meet your needs!
>>>
>>> Impression ($25)
>>> http://babelcompany.com/impression/
>>> Can back up directories to multiple optical discs (CD-R, CD-RW, and
>>> DVD-R) with multi-directory backups, incremental/differential
>>> backups,
>>> and direct-to-disk archiving.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'll probably not be the first one. It's $49 on their  site. Do you
>> have some way to get a special deal?
>>
>> Dave
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